Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)

Literary criticism and analysis for Margaret Fuller. Introduction, biography, and scholarly commentary for Fuller. Literaryhistory.com is a not-for-profit guide to reliable online information on canonical English and American writers, with links to offsite, free and subscription-service reference materials. The articles and books below were written by authorities on Margaret Fuller, and originally published in academic textbooks, peer-reviewed scholarly journals, web sites of professional and scholarly societies, and respected academic presses.

Introduction & Biography

Myerson, Joel.
"Margaret Fuller." A short introduction to Fuller from a college textbook, the Heath Anthology of American Literature.

"Margaret Fuller." Biography of Fuller. Also
"Margaret Fuller's Conversations." Brief description of Fuller's intellectual discussion groups, beginning in 1839, and their influence on the first American feminists. American Transcendentalism Web, ed. Ann Woodlief. Academic web site.

Cole, Phyllis. "What Margaret Fuller Did For Feminism." A talk given in Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's former bookstore, 13 West Street, Boston, on 25 May 2011, for the Margaret Fuller Bicentennial [text].

"Margaret Fuller." A biography of Margaret Fuller that provides details about her Unitarian parentage and family (her father was a Harvard-educated Unitarian). From the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Braun, Frederick Augustus. Margaret Fuller and Goethe; the development of a remarkable personality, her religion and philosophy, and her relation to Emerson, J. F. Clarke and transcendentalism (1910) [complete book, free at the Internet Archive.]

Making of America. A digital, searchable library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. U Michigan and Cornell U.

American Literature. Academic journal considered "the preeminent periodical in its field," currently (11/13/12) has a "most read articles" page, listing the fifty most often accessed articles for the previous month. Users may view, for free, the full-text of all those articles. Very generous and enlightened!